Here’s a really good post by Peter Levine. Commenting on the idea that public officials should be prosecuted if they can be shown to have lied:
“In favor of this reform: Lying is wrong. It can cause serious harm to other people. Lying by public officials can undermine the public’s sovereignty by giving citizens false information [...]
Posts on ‘January 12th, 2009’
Weblog awards and repeat voting
There’s something of a tactical voting campaign going on to ensure that Melanie Phillips doesn’t win a UK blog award. It’s hardly a life-or-death issue and I’m sure that Melanie’s people are doing the same thing, so good luck to them.
The same award scheme is in place in the US, and only one of the [...]
How to get techies to give you what you want (while Doing The Right Thing at the same time)
Here’s a bit of music made using assistive technology to cheer you up. It was sent to me by my old mate and colleague Amanda – the best usability consultant and website project manager that I’ve ever worked with.
[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuna2AWvqk]
What’s this got to do with local democracy? Well, I’ve worked with a large number of local [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
